One thing that annoys me about the micro.blog app on the iPad is when I follow a link that someone posts and I return back to the app it doesn’t remember my place but instead puts me back at the top of the timeline.
This summary about Matter makes the app sound appealing, but I am pretty happy with my current reading flow that uses River5, Radio3, IFFT, Pocket, Kindle Readwise, Roam and Evernote. The flow enables me to review and consume a high amount of information across every computer operating system that I may use.
“People are not really voting on issues, which I think is why polling is not working. People are voting on fear and mostly fear of the other side.” Still holds
I am planning on buying a new Macbook during the holiday season, so I am keeping my eyes on the deals being offered. I am not in the market for the new high-end Pros as I don’t need that much nor do I want to spend that much, but I do want at least 512 GB of storage, which pushes me to the high-end Air or the 13-inch Pro. I am leaning toward the Air, does anyone think the 13-inch Pro is the better way to go? I basically need a computer that runs current operating systems and I want it to last. I do hope to also run Windows 11 on it using Parallels. As a sidebar, I am curious if anyone has strong opinions about buying refurbished Macbooks from Apple versus new, it seems to me there is little risk and attractive prices.
Congratulations to Atlanta Braves fans who are celebrating their teams World Series championship victory. Watching the game last night gave me all the feels as it was the five year anniversary of the greatest game every played. I will forever have a bit of disbelief that I lived to see the Chicago Cubs win the World Series. I know that as a fan I am supposed to want my team to win it all every year, but even though since 2016 the Cubs have ultimately lost in the playoffs those loses were not as crushing in context of 2016. The Cubs NLCS loses in 1984, 1989, and 2003 were crushing as I had never seen them in the World Series. I’ll always be bitter about 1984 because frankly, they were the best National League team that year and should have played the Tigers.
Five years ago today was the greatest game ever played. I still tear up thinking about it.
Microsoft now has a Notion clone, while I don’t really get Notion. Every time I have checked Notion out I just think it has too much.
Wholehearted Faith, which is Rachel Held Evans last adult book, downloaded to my Kindle app today. Given her tragic death, I have mixed feelings about reading it.
Epilogue is a new entry in the micro.blog suite of apps, currently in beta, that can be used to manage your micro.blog book shelves. You can also write blog posts to your site from within the app. I am not sure a separate app is the way to go here, but I think I will find it useful all the same. Shortcut support (or share sheet support) to provide some integration between the Kindle app and Epilogue would be great. Since bookshelves are lists, export to OPML format would also be great. I managed my 2020 reading list in Little Outliner and I like the end of year result.
I am so tired of advertising bombarding everything, particularly YouTube. For me, YouTube is becoming less and less usable. Not only are there advertising cuts every three minutes but also banner ads placed over a good amount of the video display.
Does anyone know of where one can legally buy a Windows 11 license (product key) to use for a virtual machine? Please reply with links if possible.
Zavala is an outliner that runs in iOS and iPadOS that exports to OPML. The developer is working on integration with micro.blog using Shortcuts.
I read these stories of Manchin in the middle of all the current politics and I can’t help but think about how much of an ego trip that must be. Right now he has all the attention and power, Trump must be envious.
Android 12L reads to me to be a bit like iPadOS. Interesting how Google and Apple interact, although foldables don’t appear to be on Apple’s radar.
In my opinion, obsessing over Facebook from either a journalistic or free speech point of view is wrong. Facebook is operating within a system that incentivizes its behavior, so you really can’t address the root cause without looking past Facebook and to the system. Ever since the New Deal capitalists have been working to dismantle any constraints put on them by the New Deal laws. For capitalists life is all about wealth, wealth, and more wealth. They think they can to use their wealth to escape to some far away island or Mars when the world as they know it ends, and it will end.
Looking through the pictures that I took during my most recent trip to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and I think this one of the Cut River Bridge is one of the best.
Regarding writing posts for micro.blog using Drummer. If you create a post in Drummer and publish it do not edit that post in micro.blog because you will lose those edits whenever you publish again from Drummer.
I really enjoy watching the Manning brothers version of Monday Night Football on ESPN2. It might be a sign that I watch too much football that I appreciate a different broadcast style for one of the games.
All of a sudden all of what I have written and published today on my Old School blog today has disappeared. Not good. Looks like any new post created with the plus sign after 8 PM EST will have a created day that is in the future and the Old School publisher then doesn’t publish any other entries.
I was having a problem with my iPad Mini in that links to web sites that should load from other apps like email do not load. The problem also affects the ability to load hotel captive portal pages, which means I couldn’t connect this iPad to the Internet in some hotels. The problem appears to be NextDNS, which while I had disabled it in the app the DNS settings were still pointing to it. After I changed the DNS setting to automatic I could open the captive portal page.